Politics - 8 August 2007

Is it right for Hillary to use the Minnesota disaster to gain political advantage?

2007-08-08 08:37:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is this a result of the 'hooligan' culture prevalent amongst soccer fans?

2007-08-08 08:35:31 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

as Marx wrote, the proletariat outnumbers the bourgeoisie, therefore in the long run, they will always have more power. capitalism cannot survive if the workers dont show up for work. what if the workers instead resort to rioting and looting?

2007-08-08 08:32:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't you think it would save considerable embarrassment when one goes astray? You could just say they were human if they didn't have that "moral majority" cross to bear.

2007-08-08 08:25:58 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Wasn't it Bush senior that started bragging about it?

Are the Neocons now ashamed of the connotations surrounding the phrase?

2007-08-08 08:23:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Y/A censored my answer to a question that was
FOLEY HAGGARD 2008
Amazing

2007-08-08 08:22:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dumb Quotes:

OBAMA
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed."
--on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

JOHN McCAIN
"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today."

--prior to visiting a Baghdad market while being flanked by 22 soldiers, 10 armored Humvees, and two Apache attack helicopters

MITT ROMNEY
"I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life."

(Romney's campaign later said he'd been hunting twice, once when he was 15, and once in 2006 at a Republican fundraiser

HILARY CLINTON
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

RUDY GIULIANI
We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything."

2007-08-08 08:22:22 · 11 answers · asked by Lauren. 4

If you knew UFO's existed, would that change your politics or your religion? How would it effect your belief system(s) and your sense of self?

2007-08-08 08:21:58 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Who is to draw those distinctions? And how? Based on what? How can we say we should have unlimited freedom in one area but limited freedom in another? Isn't it that we all want to do different things and that these "areas" are just artificial distinctions - sought by people who want "the freedom" to do what THEY want to do but to limit someone else's freedom to do what he wants to do?

How can one support sexual freedom but not commercial freedom? What's the difference? You want to have sex - I want to buy something. Someone else might want to travel somewhere. Yet another might want to read something you or I might find offensive.

Isn't the only acceptable limit the built-in limit - that one cannot be free to limit another's freedom? Otherwise isn't my right to buy or sell something as sacrosanct as your right to have sex with a willing partner?

2007-08-08 08:17:27 · 6 answers · asked by truthisback 3

did capitalism really beat the Soviet Union? the Soviet Union entered the cold war with fewer resources and a higher poverty rate than US, after having endured over 100 years of imperialism. america entered with a head start, and a good economy because no one tried to cheat it. america won because it stayed in the wealthy condition that it was in, the Soviets lost because they could not get out of the poor condition that they started in quick enough.
Is this fair play? we cannot conclude that the Soviets lost...

2007-08-08 08:17:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

And if not, doesn't the freedom of consumers require the freedom of producers?

If the government says "you can't produce X" isn't that just the same thing as saying "you can't consume X?" After all, producers don't decide what to produce because they think that's what people ought to want - they produce what consumers are willing to pay enough of a premium for that they can made a profit after the cost of making it.

2007-08-08 08:13:53 · 10 answers · asked by truthisback 3

Civil Rights Act of 1964 vote by party:

The original House version:
Democratic Party: 153-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

The Senate version:
Democratic Party: 46-22 (68%-32%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%

As you can see a much higher percentage of Republicans voted for the bill.

Please don't give me the lame comment about racists moving to the Republican party. As long as you've got a former officer of the KKK in the senate, in Robert Byrd D-WV, that argument doesn't fly.

Lies and misinformation are the Decmocrat Party.

2007-08-08 08:13:07 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

This would include stealing them from wherever they're kept, shipping or flying bombs to Iraq, then pretending they weren't ours. On the other hand, our government is capable of doing a lot of stuff secretly.

2007-08-08 08:11:00 · 18 answers · asked by Charlie J. 2

I am thinking about that qualified majority or an average citizens and for what reason would it be?
Please response honestly!

2007-08-08 08:09:41 · 21 answers · asked by Ivan 2

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NATION/108080088/1001

2007-08-08 08:07:28 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

put "Life" before "Liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for a reason? Do you think it might have been a prioritized list?

2007-08-08 08:04:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Perhaps the most quoted phrase in all of the founding political documents of the US is found in the Declaration of Independence: "...all men are created equal". "Created" is a key word. Hence, when we are born we are creatd equal. What one does with his life thereafter causes the disparity in our society, including economic disparity. Yet, Hillary proposes to engineer society so that all are economically on the same footing. Did our founding fathers intend this or is trampling on the Declaration of Independence?

2007-08-08 07:59:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can't understand why it seems so important in the US that the politicians talk about their faith, and why congressmen and women have to swear an oath on the Bible when they begin their mandate.
And the statement on every dollar bill "In God we trust"....I don't think that all US citizen believe that there is a God somewhere out there. Can't you have a religion that doesn't believe in a God (Buddhism, Taoism, Animism, ...), or can't you be an atheist or an agnostic and at the same time a US citizen?

In my opinion, religion is a personal thing, and the state should stay completely out of it.

2007-08-08 07:51:05 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

constant, mind-controlling propaganda?

2007-08-08 07:50:50 · 23 answers · asked by jimmy j 2

I'm 51 and I've been hearing this my whole life. And guess what, it's never happened. You always seem to hear this just before an election from the democrats.

Those of you who vote democrat. Those of you who spew hate for America and President Bush, in my 51 years, your kind has been on the wrong side of everything. Right now your progaganda wing (media) still has some influence to lead the American people down the wrong road. But it won't always be that way. Your days are numbered. Right thinking people will only take so much.

2007-08-08 07:48:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are we so conditioned,and out of touch with the world.?Except for a few exceptions the remainder of the world is 3rd world.Does the propaganda machine have us that off?

2007-08-08 07:47:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-08 07:46:40 · 10 answers · asked by trovalta_stinks_2 3

I got flagged for asking this question by some liberal, could someone please explain to me what Yahoo violation I broke?

Deleted Question: John Edwards what a joke just another Liberal Hypocrite.?

Question Details: John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies. The Edwards campaign said the multimillionaire trial lawyer would not return the hefty payout from Murdoch for the book titled "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives." The campaign didn't respond to a question from The Post about whether it was hypocritical for Edwards to take money from News Corp. while calling for other candidates not to. In addition to a $500,000 advance from HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp., Edwards also was cut a check for $300,000 for expenses. Edwards claimed $333,334 in royalties from last year's release of the book, according to media accounts. The campaign said last night that those funds were part of the advance. He says he gave that amount to charity, which would also provide tax benefits for Edwards. "We're more than happy to give even more of Murdoch's money to Habitat for Humanity and other good causes," spokesman Eric Schultz told The Post yesterday. He declined to show proof, however, that Edwards had donated the $500,000 advance or $300,000 expense checks to charity. Meanwhile, Edwards yesterday attacked Hillary Rodham Clinton for taking more than $20,000 in donations from News Corp. officials, arguing that the company's Fox News Channel is tilted to the right. News Corp. also owns The New York Post. Clinton declined to respond. The Edwards campaign said it would return less than $1,000 in donations from three Fox employees. Languishing in the polls behind Clinton and Barack Obama, Edwards also has led the Democratic field's boycott of a Fox co-sponsored presidential debate.

2007-08-08 07:43:42 · 9 answers · asked by dez604 5

there is not the same promise of wealth under socialized medicine?

2007-08-08 07:41:01 · 23 answers · asked by ? 6

to go to Yahoo! Finance, look up the stock information on the biggest corporations, look up institutional ownership and discover that it is in the 50%-80% range for most of the "big corporations?" In other words, do they fail to realize that there's no "THEM" - - - - that "THEY" are "US" - that the "big corporations" are the "little people" themselves?

(Or do they just not realize that "institution" means your pension, the mutual funds held in your 401-K, etc..... )?

And are they forgetting how these companies got their money? I.e., through exchange in which consumers - i.e., those same "little guys," GIVE them THEIR money in EXCHANGE for some good or service that they WANT?

2007-08-08 07:37:26 · 13 answers · asked by truthisback 3

2007-08-08 07:33:59 · 17 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3

2007-08-08 07:32:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

everything for them. Why is this?

2007-08-08 07:30:50 · 11 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

Besides voting and answering questions on Y!A politic section.

2007-08-08 07:27:56 · 10 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

Clinton's one time affair? Or should we once again just forget all about it in a few years? I personally think the actions this administration took should be held over the republican party's heads for at least 20 years.

2007-08-08 07:24:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous